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GOLD PROSPECTING

We now offer the full line of Angus Mackirk gold prospecting equipment.

See the complete catalog of products here.

Power Sluices - Dredges - Stream sluices - Concentrators - Screens - Regulators - and much more...

Power Sluices

Dredges

Stream Sluices

Concentrators

Screens

Regulators

Recirculators

and much more...

Gold nugget detectors

Fisher Gold Bug 2

Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger
Garrett Infinium LS

Tesoro Lobo Super Traq

Minelab X-terra 705 Gold Pack

Minelab Eureka Gold
Minelab SD 2100v2
Minelab SD 2200v2
Minelab GPX 5000

See also digging tools

Camping tool for prospectors
4" Detachable knife.
Fork and knife detach from each other - easy to eat with!
Spoon.
Fork.
Corkscrew.
Bottle opener.
Knife (blade length 2-3/4").
Can opener.
Material: stainless steel.
Includes black nylon case with belt loop

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Big Valley's best portable gold sluice
Internet price $114.95
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Multi-Purpose Recirculating Sluice Box Kit
  • Key Features:
  • .063" Aluminum
  • 50" Long X 9" Wide
  • 8 Zinc Plated 18 ga. Steel Riffles (Gold Coloring)
  • 13 ga. Expanded Metal
  • Nylon Carrying Strap
  • Outdoor Matting
  • Tsunami 1200 GPH Pump uses a low 4 amp draw 12VDC motor
  • All Hardware made of Stainless Steel
  • Sluice Stand with 4 independently adjustable legs
  • 15.9 Lbs.


Multi Purpose Recirculating Sluice Box Kit is built around our patented rugged Folding Sluice Box. With over 5,000 sold nation wide. This is a true Multi Purpose Machine. The sluice can be used alone, it can be used with our Stand that includes adjustable legs to make it easy when leveling out your Sluice Box in any terrain, add Header Kit when only having standing water or no water, than it becomes a Highbanker. Our kit consist of a Self Locking Backpacking Sluice Box that will unfold from 15" to 50" for easy transport and storage. Header Kit with a 1200 GPH Pump, 7' of 1-1/8" hose, bolt with rubber washer & hose clamp. Sluice Stand that breaks down to 24" with adjustable legs. We have also include a how to video and complete instructions. With the addition of your 30 gallon reservoir and tailing buckets (not included) , you can turn this unit into a recirculator. That's 3 machines for the price of one!
All corners are rounded and deburred, hardware is permanently pressed in, riffles are laser cut and design for simplicity.

Works directly in any water source (Creeks, Ponds, Rivers, Etc.) or even from a reservoir container.

*With the addition of your 30 gallon reservoir and tailing buckets (not included), you can turn this higbanker unit into a recirculator

When you own your own kit, you will be ready to find gold with or without running water.

Supplied with easy, how to use written instructions.

Multi-Purpose Recirculating Sluice Box Kit
$249.95 plus shipping
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Jimmy Sierra gold nugget card


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Pan Dirt for Practice Panning
Every bag contains gold.

$8.95 plus shipping
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Gold-N-Sand Hand Dredge -Forget the PUMP N' DUMPS!

The Gold-N-Sand hand dredge pumps directly into a bucket or sluice box (see "Boomer Box") so you can go after that gold and not spend all your time trying to get to the shore to dump your load! The old pump 'n' dumps are a thing of the past and now it's faster with the Gold-N-Sand hand dredge. Gold-N-Sand will make your prospecting life a whole lot easier!

Why Gold-N-Sand?
We've sold pumps all over the world to prospectors and have rave reviews, people send in testimonials, pictures and even videos showing us the gold they've found and the fun they are having. It takes a mean gold sucker to get there!

Included with you Gold-N-Sand pump is 6 foot hose, 2 gallon filter bucket w/barbed connection on lid. Three specialty nozzles (see sidebar) with extension, instructions.

Legal for gold prospecting in CA.

Gold-N-Sand hand dredge
$99.95 plus shipping
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NEW G-1 Concentrator

The new G-1 Concentrator is the best of the best! This new unit was developed in the same way that the "Easy Pan" was.

We started with a blank slate and built the G-1 by eliminating one problem at a time from all the other hydraulic concentrators out there.

Here is the list of problems you'll be familiar with that we solved. 1) Too heavy. 2) Too bulky to transport. 3) Poor washing of material. 4) Too time consuming at clean up. 5) Poor fine gold recovery 6) Can't handle a shovel full of gravel all at once without overloading the sluice. 7) Too expensive!

All the issues that have hampered our prospecting in the past are gone!

We now have a simple, light weight, compact folding, powerful washing, SUPER FAST clean up, superior fine gold recovery, shovel full at a time, inexpensive hydraulic concentrator!

This power sluice is twice as big as any other in it's class, yet is less weight and cost less than any other full size high banker on the market!!

G-1 Concentrator
The all-new power sluice from US Prospector
$575.00 plus shipping

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Convert your G-1 power sluice into a dredge with the Dredge adaptor kit!

Comes with dredge hose adaptor -
ten feet of suction hose -
suction nozzle - clamps and fittings.

2.0".................$165.00
2.5".................$185.00
3.0".................$210.00


Fisher Starter gold prospecting kit
Includes:
10 1/2” Gold pan (made in the USA)
14” Gold pan (made in the USA)
Two 1oz shatterproof vials
Snuffer bottle
Gold prospecting panning guide

$23.99 plus shipping
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Fisher Deluxe gold prospecting kit
Includes:
10 1/2” Gold pan (made in the USA)
14” Gold pan (made in the USA)
Classifier (made in the USA)
Two 1oz shatterproof vials
Snuffer bottle
Top Hat black sand magnet
Treasure scoop
Drawstring bag
Gold prospecting panning guide

$47.99 plus shipping
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Fisher Hardrock gold prospecting kit
Includes:
10 1/2” Gold pan (made in the USA)
14” Gold pan (made in the USA)
Classifier (made in the USA)
Two 1oz shatterproof vials
Snuffer bottle
Top Hat black sand magnet
Treasure scoop
Drawstring bag
Precision tweezers
Magnifier
Crevice tool
Rock pick
Gold prospecting panning guide
Retail price $109.99 Our price $87.99 plus shipping
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Garrett Complete gold pan kit
Includes - 10" and 14" gold pans, one classifier, one gold guzzler, tweezers, two gold vials, and the book, 'Find an ounce of gold a day', by Charles Garrett.

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Garrett Deluxe gold pan kit
includes - 10", 14" and 15" gold pans, one classifier, one Guzzler, two gold vials, tweezers, ore bag, 'Find an ounce of gold a day' book, and 'Gold panning is easy' video.
List Price: $49.95 Our Price: $44.95
plus shipping
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Jimmy Sierra prospecting pouch JS-PP

Heavy duty cordura fabric with full length tube that holds most smaller picks.
2 Roomy pockets for personal equipment, trash, and your share of nuggets.

Jimmy Sierra prospecting pouch JS-PP
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THE TRINITY BOWL

The Trinity bowl is designed for moving many pans full of material before you do a clean up. So you could say the Trinity bowl is a production pan, for moving volume amounts of pans full to very minimal clean-ups. It is made of no-break polypropylene plastic with a UV additive built into the plastic to keep it from fading in the sunlight. These are important features to have in a pan that is guaranteed for life. The Trinity bowl is made in 2 distinct colors, blue and green, I have a lot of people ask which is the better one, and I must say that it is probably blue. This particular blue is actually called Midnight Purple and the gold really jumps up off the plastic, so it is easy to see even the very finest of gold. The flour gold is easy to see as well.

The Trinity bowl is very easy to use FOR THE BEGINNER AS WELL AS A SEASONED PANNER. It does take some time to get used to the panning concept but once easily mastered it is very simple.

Here are some useful tips about how the Trinity bowl is used. First get a pan full of material, then cover the material with water and start to stratify the material and get it all in a liquid state. This is the time when we want the gold to slide down the raised center to the round circular bottom, when the gold gets to the circular bottom it will make its way around and drop into the trap. Once the gold is in the trap it is 'trapped'. And it is not going anyplace.
Now that you have all the gold in the trap you are ready to wash off you waste gravel and rocks. You first move all of your material to the base of the large riffle side. Once you have all the large material at the base of the large riffles wash them out of the pan like you normally do in a conventional gold pan.
You will notice that the trap is also filled with black sand and that is great; we want the black sand in there to help hold the gold in the (30 recessed riffles) in the bottom of the trap.

When you are washing the gravel out of your pan there are 3 reversed rifles at the base of the larger riffles. Those three reversed riffles are a safety feature; they act just like sluice box riffles-any gold that did not drop into the trap will jump out behind these three reversed riffles and not be washed out. This way you can wash off the waste rocks and gravel a lot easier and faster than in a regular conventional gold pan.
After washing off all the waste rocks and gravel you need to check the troughs (riffles) and see if there is any gold trapped behind them. If there is, take and swirl some water through the troughs and wash the gold into the trap. Now you have an empty pan except for what is in the trap, so this is where you are going to fill the pan up with more material and follow the same steps that we just covered; you can continue doing this until you are ready to do a clean up.

THE CLEAN UP:
Now to some people this is a little tough but once it is mastered people are going to love panning again. At this point we are only working the side of the pan that has the trap and the climbing sluice. With the trap full of material we want to stratify the material from side to side, cover the material in the trap with water and shake the pan from side to side, this allows the gold to drop out into the bottom of the trap and into the (30 recessed riffles); once that is completed the top martial in the trap is waste and can be washed out of the pan through the rising sluice. To do this you dip the pan in water and submerse the sluice below the water line and move the pan in a side to side motion allowing water to come in and out of the pan.

After you have washed most of the waste material out of the trap it is time to work the bulk of the black sand out of the trap as well. This is where it can become tricky, you must submerse the sluice below the water line and move the pan from side to side, IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO SIDE TO SIDE, the material should be moving back and forth in the trap (not in and out but from side to side), this allows the gold to really have a chance to drop out and into the sluice channel and flare of the sluice. NOW AT THE SAME TIME YOU MUST DIP AND RAISE THE PAN IN AND OUT OF THE WATER. This allows water to come into the pan and wash out though the sluice, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER SIDE TO SIDE AND UP AND DOWN IN THE SAME MOVEMENTS. Once this is accomplished the black sand concentrates will flow right out of the pan and the gold settles right into the flare of the sluice.

You continue to do this until you are left with nothing but your gold.

It is a very easy way of panning once it is mastered it makes panning so much more fun.

To get the gold out of the pan take a snuffer bottle and sniff the gold off of the platform (the large flat area in front of the first sluice riffle) and continue moving the gold onto the platform until you have retrieved all of the gold.

Trinity Bowl gold pan 14" blue
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Trinity Bowl gold pan 11" blue
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Trinity Bowl gold pan 14" green
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Trinity Bowl gold pan 11" green
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What's different about the Gold Rush Pro series™ Gold Pan?
Specific improvements over all other gold pans:

Agitation is the primary function of settling heavy minerals in a slurry of water and gravel. When a mixture of water, sand and gravel are agitated, the particles are put into a state of suspension. This opens spaces between the individual particles allowing heavier minerals the gap or room to move down and through the other common particles.

1. Full diameter flat bottom - Spreads material out thinner allowing more rapid stratification of the aggregate. Thinner material gives gold less distance and therefore less time in order to settle to the bottom.

2. Agitation knobs - These create more effective agitation. While the pan is being worked from side to side, front to back and in a circular motion the knobs collide with the water and particles. This creates more agitation of the material than a standard smooth bottomed gold pan.

3. A more vertical side wall - All other pans have low sloped sides. This allows material to move up and down the walls of the pan while creating little obstruction unto which agitation could occur. The Gold Rush Pro Series Pan has sides that are nearly upright. This creates a wall that forces the material to change directions abruptly, creating even more agitation.

4. Skewed cylinder design creates multiple functions.

a) A reverse cut or trap on one side. This allows heavy minerals to be trapped while aggressively shedding lighter waste material.

b) A transitional section between the reverse cut side and the open cut side that allows the material to be gradually upgraded or super concentrated.

c) A Open cut or outward tilting side. This allows for a finishing section to work the upgraded concentrates down to clean gold or precious metals.

d) A thin horizontal rib in the finishing section allows precious metals to remain behind the rib so black sands can be more quickly panned off.

e) A completely smooth section in the finishing area for cleaning up super fine gold.

The combination of all these improvements is a gold pan that captures, concentrates and cleans gold and precious metals faster, easier, and more accurately than any other pan in history, that's why it's patent pending!

Through it's state of the art design this pan allows everyone to be fast and accurate at panning gold!

No other pan even comes close!

Gold Rush Pro Series™ gold pan
captures, concentrates and cleans gold and precious metals
fast, easy and accurate
$16.95 plus shipping
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Large crevice digging tool A00_3346aLG
$16.95 plus shipping
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Small crevice digging tool A00_3346aSM
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APEX PICKS

  • All pick heads are backed by a 100% lifetime manufacturer’s warranty to original purchaser
  • All pick heads are tempered to a Rockwell hardness of 45-50 Rc; providing extreme durability, long service and reducing the “chipping” hazards that the “imports” had
  • Apex “exclusive” split ring magnet retention design protects the magnets from impact and allows easier magnet removal during replacement and iron debris clean up. No other manufacturer offers this style of retention device.
  • Always wear eye and hand protection while using this product
  • 3 free Super Magnets included with the sale of any pick! A $36.00 value. Most pick manufacturers won’t offer even one magnet,
  • Apex provides all 3 with the purchase their picks.
  • Now offering the Badger LT with a single magnet location. Great choice for those on a tighter budget. Same great Apex quality.
  • PROUDLY MADE IN IDAHO, THE GEM STATE, USA
Apex Weasel (GCW1035-6)
Weight: approx. 2.5 lbs.
Head size: approx 10.0" x 3.5"
Handle spec: 18" hickory
No magnets included with this pick
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Apex Extreme Pick (GC1245-8)
Weight: approx. 4.75 lbs.
Head size: approx 12.0" x 4.5"
Handle spec: 36" hickory
Best gold pick on the market! Suitable for any type of detecting, short of hard-rock mining.
3 free Super magnets included with the sale of this pick!
$89.95 plus shipping
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Apex Talon Pick (GC1245-6)
Weight: approx. 4.25 lbs.
Head size: approx 12.0" x 4.5"
Handle spec: 30" hickory
Excellent choice for most nugget and relic recovery conditions.
Lightweight, yet strong enough to handle most tough soil and rocky conditions.
3 free Super magnets included with the sale of this pick!
$84.95 plus shipping
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Apex Badger Pick (GC1035-6)
Weight: approx. 2.75 lbs.
Head size: approx 10.0" x 3.5"
Handle spec: 18" hickory
Built from the same tough material as the Talon but has a slightly smaller head design and shorter handle to get into tight places. The Badger is light enough to pack all day long.
Especially suited for the non-metallic "Pick Packer" (tm) nylon holster.
3 free Super magnets included with the sale of this pick!
$75.95 plus shipping
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Apex Badger LT Pick (GCLT1035-6)
Weight: approx. 2.75 lbs.
Head size: approx 10.0" x 3.5"
Handle spec: 18" hickory
Built from the same tough material as the Talon but has a slightly smaller head design and shorter handle to get into tight places. Designed for the budget minded prospector, the Badger LT is light enough to pack all day long.
Especially suited for the non-metallic "Pick Packer" (tm) nylon holster.
1 free Super Magnets included with the sale of this pick!
$63.95 plus shipping
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Miner's hammer
$16.95 plus shipping
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Miner's chisel
$8.95 plus shipping
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Sharp-pointed chisel
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Hodan 16 inch handle pick (PK-002)
$39.75 plus shipping
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Manufactured in Arizona, USA by Hodan Machine; these picks are being used by prospectors across the nation. Made from heat treated carbon steel to a surface hardness of Rc 50 – 55 and a depth of .030 inches, the picks are then tempered, giving these tools outstanding wear resistance and durability. Each pick is fitted with an American Hickory handle which is both wedged and pinned to the head. A small button magnet is attached to the end of the handle for picking out small pieces of ferrous trash. We have two sizes available: a 16” handle and a 24” handle. The 16” is a perfect size for wearing on the belt, while the larger 24” can also be worn on the hip or slung across the shoulder. The 16” version has been preferred by detectorists swinging VLF-type machines such as: Fisher Gold Bugs, Whites GoldMasters, Tesoro Lobos, etc.

All three sizes side by side >>>>>

16" - 24" - 35"

Hodan 24 inch handle pick (PK-003)
The 24” version has been preferred by detectorists swinging the Minelab PI machines including the GP and SD Series. Width of head is 2” on both versions.
$44.50 plus shipping
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Hodan Walker 35" long
$51.95 plus shipping
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Hodan Shovel Pick 24"
$59.99 plus shipping
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Hodan Shovel Pick 36"
$69.99 plus shipping
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Call Larry at (916) 225-9150

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